Tag: 1860
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Virsa Singh v. State of Punjab – SC on Murder S.300 IPC
Comment : The Court held that to bring a case under section 300 IPC Part 3 – the prosecution need not prove that the accused…
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The Law on Common Intention S.34 Indian Penal Code
A landmark decision on the domain of S.34 as a principle of constructive criminality, where a lot many persons do a thing in furtherance…
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Reema Aggarwal v. Anupam – Supreme Court on ‘wife’
Comment : In a nutshell – the court was faced with the preposition whether ‘wife’ in S.498A means only a legally wedded wife ? Does…
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Supreme Court on Rash & Grossly Negligent.
Supreme Court of India Rathnashalvan vs State Of Karnataka on 11 January, 2007 Author: D A Pasayat Bench: D A Pasayat, S Kapadia CASE…
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Murder v. Culpable Homicide – R v Govinda
Comment : The distinction drawn by Melville J. in this cause celebre, has been accepted. In a nutshell – as Culpable Homicide is the genus…
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Role of Judge in a Criminal Trial
A judgment of seminal important on the role of a judge in a criminal trial, the breadth of the 165/311 inquisitorial aspects of court’s…
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Supreme Court on S.106 Burden of Proof as to facts especially within knowledge.
Comment : In this case the Court was faced with a situation where a railway employee was arraigned u/s 420 IPC for having cheated railway…
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Perusal of Defence testimony
Comment : defence witnessess cannot always be termed to be tainted one. defences witnesses are entitled to equal treatment and equal respect as that…
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Appraisal of Testimony of Child Witness
Comment : Allahabad High Court Panchhi And Ors. vs State Of U.P. on 17 February, 1998 Equivalent citations: 1998 CriLJ 3305 Author: K Shahi…
